Louis Godart

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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano , accompanied by his advisor Louis Godart, during a visit to the Athens Archaeological Museum , 23 September 2008
Louis Godart with Andrea Benetti in his office in the Quirinal Palace

Louis Godart (born August 12, 1945 in Bourseigne-Vieille ) is a Belgian-Italian classical philologist and mycenaean .

Life

Godart attended the Collège de Bellevue in Dinant , Belgium , from 1957 to 1963 , and in the same year began studying Classical Philology at the Facultés Universitaires de Namur . In 1965 he moved to the Catholic University of Leuven and graduated in 1967. From 1967 to 1971 he was a scholarship holder of the Consiglio nazionale delle Ricerche , Rome . In 1971 he received his PhD in Philosophy et Lettres from the Free University of Brussels . From 1971 to 1973 he was a member of the École française d'Athènes .

In 1973 he was appointed lecturer in Mycenaean philology at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and in 1977 received his doctorate from the Sorbonne as docteur ès lettres. In 1980 he was appointed Associate Professor and in 1983 Full Professor of Mycenaean Philology. Godart now holds one of the two chairs for Mycenaean Philology worldwide (the other was held by John Tyrell Killen at Cambridge University , England).

Since 1982 he has been head of the archaeological mission of the University of Naples in Crete . From 1983 to 1988 he was director of the Academia Belgica in Rome .

In 1987 he was admitted to the Accademia dei Lincei and in 2001 was appointed secretary of the philosophical-historical class. In 1998 he was appointed Correspondant étranger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens and a member of the Accademia Pontaniana in Naples , and in 2005 he was made an honorary member of the Associazione Nazionale Archeologi .

Since 2002 he has been Consigliere per la Conservazione del Patrimonio Artistico (adviser for the preservation of the artistic heritage) of the President of the Italian Republic . He is also a member of the Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricercha scientifica of the Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca.

Godart is domiciled in Rome and has both Belgian and Italian citizenship.

Visiting professorships took him to various Italian and foreign universities ( Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa , University of Perugia , University of Lecce , University of Rome "La Sapienza" , University of Urbino , Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, University of Paris I , University of Paris X , University of Nancy , University Aix en Provence , University of London , University of Cambridge (England), University of Madison (Wisconsin USA), Université de Liège , University of Marburg , University of Heidelberg , University of Nuremberg , University of Athens , University of Crete ).

Godart is a member of the scientific boards of a number of journals (Archeo, Archeologia Viva, Archeologie Nouvelle, Gaia, Res Publica Litterarum).

Godart was appointed Grand Officier des Ordre de Léopold II (Belgium).

Research priorities

The Phaistos disc : redrawing with field numbering after Louis Godart

Godart is working on the edition and interpretation of the documents that have come down to us in the Linear A and Linear B scripts , as well as on the other Aegean writing systems . He was involved in the editing of relevant collections of the documents in Cretan hieroglyphics , in Linear A and Linear B script. For the Phaistos Disc he has a Late Minoan dating between 1550 and the end of the 13th century BC. Proposed and submitted a detailed interpretation.

In 1982 he founded the archaeological mission entrusted with the excavation of the Minoan settlement of Apodoulou , Crete, operated by the University of Naples Fedrico II and the Greek Ministry of Culture under the direction of Giannis Tzedakis , the then General Director of Antiquities in Greece .

He has also organized various national and international congresses on the archeology and philology of the prehistory of the Mediterranean , including the Second International Mycenae Congress in Naples in 1992.

Fonts (selection)

Collection of documents in Cretan hieroglyphics and in Linear A

  • with Jean-Pierre Olivier : Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae. Paris 1996 (Etudes Crétoises, 31).
  • with Jean-Pierre Olivier: Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A. P. Geuthner, Paris 1976–1985 (Etudes Crétoises, 21, tome 1–5).

Collection of documents in Linear B

Monographs

  • with Iannis A. Papapostolou and Jean-Pierre Olivier: Γραμμική Α στο μινωικό αρχείο των Χανίων. Rome 1976 (Incunabula Graeca, LXII).
  • Fouilles exécutées à Mallia. Le Quartier Mu. Introduction générale by Jean-Claude Poursat. L'écriture hiéroglyphique crétoise par Louis Godart et Jean-Pierre Olivier. P. Geuthner, Paris 1978 (Etudes Crétoises, 23).
  • with Enrico Acquaro, Federico Mazza, Domenico Musti: Momenti precoloniali nel Mediterraneo antico. In: Atti del Convegno Internazionale svoltosi all'Accademia Belgica e al Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Rome 1989.
  • with Adele Franceschetti: Appunti di Filologia Micenea. Liguori, Naples 1990.
  • with Giannis Tzedakis: Témoignages archéologiques et épigraphiques en Crète occidentale du Néolithique au Minoen Récent III B. Rome 1992 (Incunabula Graeca, XCIII).
  • Il disco di Festo. L'enigma di una scrittura. Einaudi, Torino 1994 (Saggi 782).
    • English translation: The Phaistos Disk. The Enigma of an Aegean Script. Editions Itanos, Heraklion 1995.
    • German translation: The Phaistos Disc. The riddle of a script from the Aegean Sea. Editions Itanos, Heraklion 1995.
    • French translation: Le disque de Phaistos. L'énigme d'une vieille écriture de l'Egée. Editions Itanos, Heraklion 1995.
  • with Ernesto De Miro and Anna Sacconi: Atti e Memorie del Secondo Congresso Internazionale di Micenologia. 3 vol., Rome 1996 (Incunabula Graeca, XCVIII).

Popularizing publications

  • Le pouvoir de l'écrit. Aux pays des premières écritures. Editions Errance, Paris 1990.
  • L'invenzione della scrittura. Dal Nilo alla Grecia. Einaudi, Torino 1992 (Saggi 765).
  • Il disco di Festos. Certezze ed enigmi di una grande scoperta. Supplement to the journal Archeologia Viva , October – November 1993, Giunti, Florence 1993.
  • with Gianni Cervetti: L'oro di Troia. La vera storia del tesoro scoperto da Schliemann. Einaudi, Torino 1996 (Gli Struzzi).
  • Le isole degli Dei. Creta e l'arcipelago greco. Milan, February 1997 (Archaeological monograph, VI).
  • with Judith Lange: Grecia. Terra di Dei e di Eroi. Milan, February 1998 (Archeo - monograph, VII.1)
  • Popoli dell'Egeo: civiltà dei palazzi. Silvana editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Godart, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-Italian classical philologist and mycenaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourseigne-Vieille